Prepared remarks for a speech by Mayor Rob Ford at the Empire Club Friday afternoon. Nineteen years ago … on Oct. 14, 1992, the Toronto Blue Jays won their first American League pennant. It set up a two-year run that defied everyone’s expectations. A Toronto team did something no one thought possible: back-to-back World Series […]

Residents of Kensington Market got their first look at a contentious plan to build a big-box store on the edge of the fiercely independent community. The three-storey, 139,000 square-foot building spearheaded by RioCan development would take up nearly 100 metres of Bathurst Street storefront, and would sit atop what is now Kromer Radio. At Wednesday […]

Mayor Rob Ford says he is pinching pennies, but he has failed to mention a whopping bill that the Province of Ontario is still preparing to send to the City of Toronto, related to Mr. Ford’s cancellation last fall of Mayor David Miller’s Transit City program. On Monday I reminded readers that, in cancelling the […]

Toronto faces a $774-million budget deficit in 2012, and Mayor Rob Ford wants your help. The City of Toronto is reviewing all of its services as part of a multi-year financial planning process, and will launch a public consultation process to gather citizen input.